story: CHAPTER II. ON A MOUNTAIN PATH 
  
  "Armed men, my lords!" had been Fanfulla's cry. "We are betrayed!" 
  
  They looked at one another with stern eyes, and with that grimness that takes the place which fear would hold in meaner souls. 
  
  Then Aquila rose slowly to his feet, and with him rose the others, looking to their weapons. He softly breathed a name--"Masuccio Torri." 
  
  "Aye," cried Lodi bitterly, "would that we had heeded your warning! Masuccio it will be, and at his heels his fifty mercenaries." 
  
  "Not less, I'll swear, by the sound of them," said Ferrabraccio. "And we but six, without our harness." 
  
  "Seven," the Count laconically amended, resuming his hat and loosening his sword in its scabbard. 
  
  "Not so, my lord," exclaimed Lodi, laying a hand upon the Count's arm. "You must not stay with us. You are our only hope--the only hope of Babbiano. If we are indeed betrayed--though by what infernal means I know not--and they have knowledge that six traitors met here to-night to conspire against the throne of Gian Maria, at least, I'll swear, it is not known that you were to have met us. His Highness may conjecture, but he cannot know for sure, and if you but escape, all may yet he well--saving with us, who matter not. Go, my lord! Remember your promise to seek at your cousin's hand the gonfalon, and may God and His blessed Saints prosper your Excellency." 
  
  The old man caught the young man's hand, and bending his head until his face was hidden in his long white hair, he imprinted a kiss of fealty upon it. But Aquila was not so easily to be dismissed. 
questions: who rose to his feet?
questions: whose name did he mutter?
questions: how many men were coming for them?
questions: how many were prepared to defend, including the Count?
questions: what did Fanfulla cry out?
questions: what else did he say?
questions: who grabbed the Count's arm?
questions: what did the Count loosen?
questions: did Lodi want him to stay?
questions: why not?
questions: what was he the only hope of?
questions: what were the six men conspiring against?
questions: who swore to say that the count hadn't met them?
answers: Aquila
answers: Then Aquila rose slowly to his feet, 
answers: "Masuccio Torri."
answers:  breathed a name--"Masuccio Torri." 
answers: 50.
answers: his fifty mercenaries." 
answers: Seven.
answers: Seven," the Count laconically amended
answers: "Armed men, my lords!
answers: "Armed men, my lords!
answers: "We are betrayed!"
answers: "We are betrayed!" 
answers: Lodi.
answers: "Not so, my lord," exclaimed Lodi, laying a hand upon the Count's arm. 
answers: His sword in its scabbard.
answers: "Seven," the Count laconically amended, resuming his hat and loosening his sword in its scabbard. 
answers: No.
answers: "You must not stay with us. 
answers: He was their only hope.
answers: You are our only hope
answers: Babbiano.
answers: -the only hope of Babbiano.
answers: The throne of Gian Maria.
answers: that six traitors met here to-night to conspire against the throne of Gian Maria,
answers: Lodi.
answers: , I'll swear, it is not known that you were to have met us. 